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Often the engineering college or individual departments will have recommended laptop specs for students. If available, try to meet those. From my experience, get something light. When I started college back in '03 I got a $2300 top-of-the-line desktop replacement. It worked great, and I still have and use it. However, it was heavy and a major pain to bring to/from campus and often I left it at home.
You should be able to find a laptop with enough speed, memory and disk space that's light/compact enough to drag around campus. Since you're going into mechanical engineering something with a good graphics card would be nice for your cad/modeling tools.
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